Total Reportage Text & Photo / Les fantômes du Mezzogiorno

his article is about the struggle of rugby players (often forced to leave and to go in the wealthy regions of the North to play), coaches, sport educators and chairmen (desperately looking for sponsors) to stay on the map of Italian rugby. A journey in the history and the present of this sport, from Rome to Naples and though Sicily where the "oval ball" is now even competing with football and the mafia in one of the toughest suburbs of the country.